Rajesh Kumar is an entrepreneur with robust experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, business intelligence, project management and IT process consulting working for several clients in Finance, Information Technology, Marketing and Operations domain. Rajesh holds rich consulting experience with Fortune 100 organizations. He has B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and MBA from IIT Kanpur.

Padma Shri Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras India. He received a B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine, USA. Professor Jhunjhunwala has the unique distinction among academics for combining innovations in technology and business incubation with the social goal of sustainable development in India.

Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks Group (TeNeT) of IIT Madras faculty whose members have been working closely with industry in the development of a number of products suitable for developing countries using affordable technologies for more than a decade.

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala has been the recipient of the prestigious Padma Shri Award by the Government of India in the year 2002. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister of India (SAC-PM).

Prof Prakash Sai is professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has wealth of international consulting experience in the broad areas of Technology Strategy Formulation, Techno-Economic Feasibility Studies, Organizational Restructuring, Corporate Planning, Business Process Reengineering, Activity Based Costing, and Industrial Engineering /Management.

Puneet Gupta spearheads the IFMR Mezzanine Finance (Mezz Co.), a wholly owned subsidiary of the IFMR Trust. The main objective of Mezz Co is to strengthen the delivery of financial services to rural households and urban poor by making investments in local financial institutions such as Microfinance Institutions. Mezz Co provides medium to long term capital to MFIs to enable them to grow. It intends to create a new class of liability side instruments for local financial institutions that will enable MFIs to meet their regulatory capital requirement.